[Cryptography] Rosetta Stone

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Wed Sep 26 18:35:35 EDT 2018


On this day in 1822, French scholar Jean-François Champollion announced 
that he had decoded the Rosetta Stone; it's an interesting story in and of 
itself, involving using a known language to figure out an unknown one, so 
it's somewhat crypto-related...

-- Dave


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